The parts of Europe ISIS plans to “liberate” are Spain and the Balkan area. These areas have been under Muslim control before.

Spain and parts of France and Portugal are called “Andalus” by ISIS, the same name the Moors used for these territories when they occupied them at various times between the 8th and 15th centuries.

The conquest of these vast territories before 2020 is meant to complete the establishment of the new caliphate. When this part of ISIS’ overall plan for the world is realized, the next stage will be to bring the rest of the world under Muslim rule.

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Hosken explains:

Once they have their caliphate, they plan to turn against the rest of the world. They envisage the whole world being under their rule.

They have 60 nations against them, including the Iran, Russia, China so one would think that is pretty unlikely. But one would have thought the first steps were unlikely as well.

Hosken adds that ISIS sees “us as being under their rule too and having to abide by their ideology. They have already destabilized Iraq and Syria, they have tried to destabilize Saudi Arabia and Libya and recently they almost destroyed Tunisia’s main industry, tourism.”

Hosken thinks the likelihood that ISIS will develop biological and chemical weapons will grow the longer the organization stays in power in territories in Syria and Iraq.

“If they had weapons of mass destruction, they would use them,” he says, “There is no question about that.”

Hosken reveals that ISIS’ plan for the world was drawn up by Iraqi al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He compiled the seven steps that must be completed for an ISIS victory by 2020. The direct roots of the organization, however, go back to Afghanistan. In 1999, the group started its operations at the Tawhid wa’l jihad training camp in the Afghan mountains.

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Hosken claims al-Qaeda in Iraq could have been destroyed in 2010-11, when roughly 80 percent of the organization’s leaders had been killed or put behind bars.

“We didn’t finish them off and like a cancer they came back,” he says.

On Monday, Western Journalism reported that the Islamic State has made new gains in Syria and threatens to cut off supply lines to three major Syrian cities.

Lebanese media report the Islamic State may have now set its sights on Lebanon.

Lebanese NOW News reports that Islamic State forces are pushing westward in the direction of the Qalamoun Mountains after seizing the strategic town of Qaryatayn last week. The Qalamoun Mountains are located along the Lebanese border, and the very important Homs-Damascus highway runs through the area.

Lebanon is going through a severe political crisis and has had no president for over a year now. The country saw clashes between ISIS and the Lebanese army in 2014 when ISIS launched an assault on the border town of Arsal.

Meanwhile, GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump came out in favor of using U.S. ground forces in the battle against ISIS. In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Trump said he would first cut off ISIS’ oil revenues.

“They have great money because they have oil. Every place where they have oil I would knock the hell out of them,” Trump said.

“I would knock out the source of their wealth, the primary sources of their wealth, which is oil. And in order to do that, you would have to put boots on the ground. I would knock the hell out of them, but I’d put a ring around it and I’d take the oil for our country,” Trump told MSNBC.

ISIS’ oil wealth is estimated at $2 billion.

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